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The Montana Energy Forum held in Sidney last Wednesday and Thursday brought oil and gas development interests from Manitoba, Canada together with local businesses and officials. The group toured the area and visited various facilities connected to the oil field. They also had the opportunity to meet with representatives from local businesses and discuss mutual benefits of doing business together. At the luncheon held on Wednesday, local veterans and their spouses were special guests and were...
Based in Calgary, TransCanada Corporation, Canada's second largest pipeline company patiently awaits a ruling on the Keystone XL pipeline. The ruling is expected to be made by the end of the first quarter of 2014. The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 1,179 mile, 36 inch-diameter crude oil pipeline beginning in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada and extending south to Steele City, Nebraska. The pipeline will transport crude oil from Canada along with crude oil from producers in the Bakken region of Nort...
Montanans can’t escape the television and radio ads attacking the two candidates for U.S. Senate. Paid for by official groups like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and murkier organizations like Crossroads GPS, the ads generally assault Democrat Jon Tester and Republican Dennis Rehberg as being out of touch with normal Montanans. The deluge often leaves Montanans wondering who the candidates are and where they stand on major issues. This has become a battle of who is the most a...
1. Unemployment over 8% since Obama took office despite trillions in bailouts and stimulus. Actual unemployment 14% counting underemployed, part-time employment and those who have simply stopped looking for a job. Obama’s unkept promise 5%. 23 million Americans unemployed—the most since the depression of the ‘30s. 2. National debt under Bush 5 trillion. National debt under Obama 16 trillion. That exceeds the combined debt of all the so-called bankrupt countries of Europe. It would be impossible to pay off this debt in our lifetimes, so we ar...
Last Thursday, North Dakota officially became the third largest oil producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas and Alaska, while Republicans on Capital Hill continued to try to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline. President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline project fueled a GOP measure that the Senate narrowly rejected last Thursday. The amendment would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. The...
The Montana Farmers Union (MFU) made the following statement concerning President Obama’s recent Keystone XL Pipeline decision: “The Montana Farmers Union at its convention held in October 2011, passed a Special Order of Business that addressed the Keystone XL Pipeline, its safety needs and landowner protections. “The Special Order of Business pointed out that the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline does not include any additional requirements beyond those required for the Keystone 1 Pipeline, which has s...
The Montana Farmers Union (MFU) made the following statement concerning President Obama’s recent Keystone XL Pipeline decision: “The Montana Farmers Union at its convention held in October 2011, passed a Special Order of Business that addressed the Keystone XL Pipeline, its safety needs and landowner protections. “The Special Order of Business pointed out that the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline does not include any additional requirements beyond those required for the Keystone 1 Pipeline, which has s...
Governor Brian Schweitzer has announced that TransCanada, the owner of the Keystone XL pipeline, has fulfilled all its obligations under Montana’s Major Facility Siting Act (MFSA), and that within the next several weeks, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality will issue the company its MFSA certificate (permit). The $7 billion project includes over $1 billion in construction in Montana, and will help create 1,200 high-paying construction jobs. “In addition to the $100 million access on-ramp for Montana-produced oil that the com...
The State Department and White House has announced that there will be a delay into 2013 on the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline as a new route is explored. “It’s good the State Department is going to take more time to evaluate a better, safer route in Nebraska,” said Don Brown, Northern Plains Resource Council member and Fort Peck landowner, who is crossed by the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline. “We urge the State Department to use this time to fix other problems with its reviews and proposed measures to ensure...
Oneok Partners representatives Steve Johnson, government regulations, and Brad Borror, corporate communications, met last week with area press and Sidney Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Wade Van Every to discuss progress of the future Bakken NGL (Natural Gas Liquid) Pipeline. “We are very encouraged by the progress being made.” said Johnson. “Contacting and negotiating with landowners is moving forward and the regulatory agencies involved have been very accommodating.” Settlement with ab...
About 40 members of Northern Plains Resource Council, including landowners affected by the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, attended a national hearing last week at the Dawson Community College, Glendive. “The pipeline is for the purpose of generating profit for a private company – it’s for a private use,” said Terry Blevins, a Wolf Point-area landowner crossed by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and member of the Northern Plains Pipeline Landowners Group. “It will generate few, if any, local jobs, and the oil is likely to be destin...
Northern Plains farmers and ranchers along Keystone XL pipeline say ExxonMobil disaster on Yellowstone River must not be repeated. Dear Governor Schweitzer: The Exxon pipeline rupture shows that pipeline leaks can and do happen, and that it is a disaster when landowners, emergency responders, and community officials are not adequately prepared for such an occurrence. We are landowners along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route and downstream from the Missouri and Yellowstone river crossings who are concerned about the impact that another...
The rupture and release of 42,000 gallons of crude oil from an Exxon pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River brings home to Montanans the need for improved oversight and careful planning of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline is proposed to carry corrosive tar sands oil across 250 miles of Montana en route from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. Its route will include 400 water crossings in Montana, including the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. The difference between the two pipelines is huge, with the Keystone XL pipeline projected to...
